About Miss Brown (Long Form)

Miss Tiffany Lee Brown is a writer, editor, and performer based in Portland, Oregon, a Blue State of the USA.




Writing:
Miss Brown's work appears in literary journals and periodicals including The Utne Reader, Tin House, Bookforum, Slow Trains, Bust, The Organ Review of Arts, Art Access, Willamette Week, Wired, The Oregonian, The Portland Mercury, Venus, and Gobshite Quarterly. She has contributed to books and anthologies including The Bust Guide to the New Girl Order (Penguin, 1999), The Clear Cut Future (Clear Cut Press, 2004), Northwest Edge: Fictions of Mass Destruction (Chiasmus Press, 2003), and How To Mutate & Take Over the World (Random House, 1996).

Tiffany recently won a Creative Economy grant from the City of Portland and a residency to Caldera Arts. Six of her poems will be published this year in Human Growth Experiment (Water Line Press), an anthology of Northwest women poets, and her latest short story is set to appear in the next issue of the venerable Washington DC-based literary journal, Gargoyle.

Editing:
Tiffany edits the non-profit journal of arts & literature 2 Gyrlz Quarterly, and was formerly editor of Signum Press and Anodyne magazine. She has also guest-edited isues of Plazm, Too Much Coffee Man, and the Fringe Ware Review. She also produced the inimitable 'zine Hot Geeks!

Performance:
After pursuing theatre as an actor and director, Tiffany began performing live improvisational music, extemporaneous storytelling and lyric-making, and other acts of performance. She has performed at the Portland Rose Festival, Burning Man, the Richard Foreman Festival, the Enteractive Language Festival, the Astoria Dark Arts Festival, and Reed College Renn Fair, in addition to art galleries and club venues. Collaborators include Soriah, the gyrl grip, Miss Murgatroid, and Black Orchid. She has also done straightforward readings of her work at venues including Powell's City of Books in Portland, the West Side Y in New York, the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, and the NW Book Fair in Seattle. She will appear at the Wordstock Festival in Portland, April 2005.

Sources & Appearances:
Miss Brown has been interviewed and sourced by the Wall Street Journal, World Art magazine, the Washington Post, The Oregonian, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, I.D. magazine, and in books including Rebel Yell, the handbook for independent writers, and Jamming the Media, a guide to independent media. She's been a speaker, moderator, roundtable participant, and panelist for Modern Times Bookstore and the Digital Diner series in San Francisco, Austin's SXSW Interactive, and in Portland, the NXNW Music Conference, Portland State University, and the City of Portland.

Events & Community:
Tiffany sees events as essential to the development of creative and literary communities, and believes passionately that words should live off the page--in performance, storytelling, spoken word, and readings--as well as on it. "Exquisite Language" is her most recent project, involving 70 writers from around the world such as Dave Eggers of McSweeney's, author/NPR commentator Doug Rushkoff, musician/lyricist Alan Sparhawk of the band Low, and renowned performance poet Beth Lisick. The work culminated in the publication of various exquisite corpses in 2 Gyrlz Quarterly's Fall 2004 and Spring 2005 issues, and an event at the Heathman Hotel as part of the Enteractive Language Festival. For the 2003 EL-Fest, she produced "The Language of Print" with La Palabra Cafe-Press, presenting readings from over a dozen Northwest writers and word/print-related works from nine visual, performative, and multi-disciplinary artists. Tiffany was previously an organizer for Drift Catalyst and for the dUdU International Art Conspiracy.

Commercial & Non-Profit Projects:
Tiffany has worked extensively developing editorial content for commercial and non-profit projects in print and online. She is presently the Chairperson of 2 Gyrlz Performative Arts, a Portland based 501(c)(3) organization. Former Creative Director for musician Youssou N'Dour's "Joko" non-profit project based in West Africa and Senior Writer for the New York web development agency Organic, her clients have included the art college PNCA, the musician Sting, Lucent Technologies, and New Line Cinemas. Since 1992, she has been a participant and forum host for the pioneering online community The Well, formerly a non-profit and part of the Co-Evolutionary Quarterly and Whole Earth, currently owned by Salon.com.

Education:
Miss Brown graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of California at Berkeley with a BA in Dramatic Art, in addition to studying at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, and at Harvard University. She worked with Tom Spanbauer and Joanna Rose at the Dangerous Writers workshop at Haystack, and with Whitney Otto at Tin House. She plans to begin an MFA program in the autumn of 2005.

Contact Info & Links:
Miss Tif's personal information is online at www.well.com/~magdalen ... the journal she edits is at 2GQ.org ... her musical and improvisational work is represented at the Passiflora homepage, and her political rantings & random links may be found on the Magdalen Sez blog. Contact her as magdalen ( at ) drowningrat.com or 3439 NE Sandy Blvd #513, Portland, Oregon, 97232, USA.